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Axillary buds are located at the intersection of the leaf and stem of a plant. The axillary bud (or lateral bud) is an embryonic or organogenic shoot located in the axil of a leaf. Each bud has the potential to form shoots, and may be specialized in producing either vegetative shoots (stems and branches) or reproductive shoots . Once formed, a ...
axillary, when located in the axil of a leaf (lateral is the equivalent but some adventitious buds may be lateral too); adventitious , when located elsewhere, for example on the trunk or roots (some adventitious buds may be former axillary ones that are reduced and hidden under the bark, while other adventitious buds are completely new formed ...
A plant which completes its life cycle (i.e. germinates, reproduces, and dies) within two years or growing seasons. Biennial plants usually form a basal rosette of leaves in the first year and then flower and fruit in the second year. bifid Forked; cut in two for about half its length. Compare trifid. bifoliate
The plant has pinnately compound leaves with 5–11 membranous leaflets. It has axillary flower and fruit clusters. [3] The buds are hairy. The dark green leaves are bitter-aromatic, with crenate margins. [3] [6] The stalked follicles are green and then turn red [6] through deep blue through black. [3] [7] Flowers are dioecious, with yellow ...
Flowers are unisexual, small on separate plants and appearing when the plant is leafless, greenish-yellow on axillary and terminal racemes. Male flowers are clustered, but female flowers are usually solitary. It has six sepals in two series of three each. The outer ones are smaller than the inner.
A lateral shoot, commonly known as a branch, is a part of a plant's shoot system that develops from axillary buds on the stem's surface, extending laterally from the plant's stem. Importance to photosynthesis
When the axillary bud becomes fleshy and rounded due to the storage of food, it is called a bulb. [20] It gets detached from the plant, falls on the ground, and develops into a new plant. e.g. Dioscorea. [21] It is in the axil (the space between the leaf and stem). [22]
These axillary buds have developed through evolution as a form of botanical risk management – they give the plant a means to continue to grow in the face of environmental hazards. When gardeners prune the tops of branches in order to obtain a bushier plant, they are using this feature of primary growth in plants.